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The April 8 ceremony at New York's Barclays Center will honor most of the group's first three lineups, including Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Rod Evans, Roger Glover, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes.

"Putting the past shenanigans to one side, the induction is not - in clear fact - for Deep Purple," writes Gillan on his website. "It is an arbitrary selection of past members, which excludes Steve Morse and Don Airey; both of whom have been with the living breathing DP for a very long time."

Morse has been the group's guitarist since 1994 while keyboardist Airey joined the lineup following the 2001 retirement of founding member Jon Lord.

"Obviously this is very silly," Gillan continues, "and so my response is quite simple: 'Thank you very much'. "And what a coincidence," the singer adds, "This morning I got an invitation to a wedding from some dear old friends. Unfortunately my family was not invited and they said that I would be required to sit next to my ex (we divorced decades ago) at the wedding feast. They were shocked when I called to thank them and decline the invitation."

On hand to promote "The Ties That Bind: The River Collection", a newly-issued 7-disc box set marking the 35th anniversary of the 1980 double-album, the New Jersey rocker delivered the previously unreleased tune "Meet Me In The City" and "The Ties That Bind" before closing out the show with "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" - with the help of the SNL cast and special guest Paul McCartney.

The package presents the original record alongside "The River: Single Album" - originally named "The Ties That Bind" - a 10-track album that Springsteen recorded in 1979 as a follow up to 1978's "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" but never released.

The 4CD/3DVD set also includes 22 outtakes from the studio sessions alongside an hour-long documentary/interview and a legendary 1980 concert filmed at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

And despite the fact Plant has spoken out on several occasions against resurrecting the group, who split in 1980 following the sticksman's death, Bonham still feels it's a distinct possibility.

He tells Vanyaland: "In my heart of hearts I do believe we will play together again. It remains to be seen if it will be in public or privately, but I do think we will play again."

The Rockford, IL band will enter the Hall during an April 8 ceremony at New York's Barclays Center alongside Deep Purple, Steve Miller, Chicago and N.W.A.

The principal lineup of guitarist Rick Neilsen, vocalist Robin Zander, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos will enter the Hall, while Carlos was removed from the touring lineup in 2010 and replaced by Neilsen's son Daxx.

It was the first time in almost 20 years that they'd performed together. They've been involved in reunion speculation for several years, with Dave reporting in 2014 that they'd spent a short time working on music together.

Ray appeared on the Islington Assembly Hall stage towards the end of the show, and told his brother: "Your gift is wrapped under the Christmas tree - but unfortunately you're banned from the house."

He then led the audience in a round of applause for the guitarist, before Dave invited him to move from a backing-vocal microphone to the lead one at centre stage. The pair shook hands at the end of the song before Ray left.

Mainman Trent Reznor revealed the news on Twitter while promoting the band's art book with longtime collaborator Russell Mills titled Cargo In The Blood. He says: "New NIN coming in 2016. Other stuff, too."

He tells Mitch Lafon: "The idea is to record the next album in September or October next year for an early 2017 release - that's the plan. We want to challenge ourselves with every record and that's going to happen again.

Michaels, who suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage in 2011, says: "My thoughts and prayers go out to Rikki. I have known for a while he was going through this tough battle.

"Although people have asked me about his health, out of respect for Rikki's wishes, it wasn't my place to speak about it until Rikki was ready to talk about it himself. He is a longtime friend and a true fighter."

Last week, Michaels hinted that Poison - who last made a public appearance together in 2013 - could play "select" dates next summer to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary.

The 'FN' designation apparently refers to a Stormtrooper in the First Order. Producer Four Tet, praised Godrich on Twitter for his "excellent" performance in the film - to which he replied "thanks man!"

Brink says: "I am madly in love with our UK and European fans. It breaks my heart to have to postpone our tour, but before you know it, we will be there and I am counting down the days. On our last UK/Euro run, we had some of the best shows of our entire life. Getting back to you is my priority and I'm so excited to see you soon."

Vai's webmaster posted online: "Great news, everyone - Bo, Steve's mirrored JEM that went missing this past weekend, has been found left in the bushes at the gate on Steve's property. We do not have any more details on how it got there and will perhaps forever remain a mystery.

The song was written by producer Glen James McDonald, who designed and built Iommi's studio. He reports: "I played it to Tony - I'm with the dark lord of heavy rock, and he said, 'That sounds like Christmas.'"

The footballers say on their Christmas Way website: "For many, this Christmas will be overshadowed by suffering rather than joy, pain rather than love and difficulty rather than comfort.

Bowden, who previously played in Lincoln hardcore band Blood Youth, had been performing with Neck Deep for four months before they offered him the permanent spot.

The 13-track follow-up to 2014's Magic Mountain is named after the band's home state, and it'll be launched via their new deal with Mascot Label Group. Guitarist Ben Wells says: "This album is by far the heaviest, most aggressive album we've ever made. We went in focused, but not overly prepared. We wanted to leave room for creativity to grow in the studio and man did it happen.

"Lyrically, we went to places that we think people will relate to, because it's all stuff that we have lived, or are living. This is the first album we've been able to fully self-produce and the result is an album jam-packed with 'in your face' riffs, huge drums, and bass that will shake your teeth."

The band are set to play Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion, Fort Rock and Welcome to Fort Rockville alongside Rob Zombie, Disturbed, Bring Me The Horizon and more next May.

But guitarist Oscar Dronjak tells Spark TV they find it difficult to make time to pen songs while on the road. He says: "I find it hard. I always want to be removed from the live situation when I write songs, and it's very difficult when you know that in three weeks you're gonna go out on tour again.

"I don't think I would be able to do it if I was like I was when I was younger, but now I plan ahead much more. Now I have a family and everything I have to take care of, so I think about things like that."

The group also delivered their classic "She Sells Sanctuary" from 1985's "Love" and "Honey From A Knife" from "Choice Of Weapon" as part of the broadcast.

"Dark Energy" previews the February 5 release of the band's 10th studio album "Hidden City." Produced by Bob Rock, the project marks the debut of bassist Grant Fitzpatrick in the lineup and is the third and final installment in a trilogy of records that began with 2007's "Born Into This" and 2012's "Choice Of Weapon."

"Hidden City is a metaphor for our spiritual lives, our intimate interior lives," says frontman Ian Astbury. "I find today's gurus are trying to peddle some cure, product or insight as if it's a new phenomenon.

Singer and bassist Becky Blomfield says: "Kabuki was the very last song we recorded on Vile Child. I wanted the recording to be mixed as minimally as possible and capture an intimate moment like somebody is telling you a story in your living room.

"It is emotionally one of the toughest songs I have ever written and it's good to be able to look back now and know it's a time in my life I made it through when it felt initially like it would never end."

Now they'll perform across the UK in May, kicking off in Southampton on the 11th, before wrapping up the tour at Leamington's Assembly Rooms on the 30th. They've also been confirmed for the Rock Of Ages festival in Seebronn, Germany, on July 31.

Guitarist Tony Clarkin wrote 25 songs for the follow-up to 2014's Escape From The Shadow Garden but cut that number to 10 for the final tracklist, with a further three included on a bonus DVD to be bundled with the record.

The work runs to more than two and half hours and also features material from their three most recent releases. Galahad say: "In some cases the new versions are similar to the originals, but in other cases the songs have been re-worked considerably. We tried to be sympathetic to the spirit of the originals, while trying to bring them up to date so they compare favourably with the Galahad sound of 2015.

Due February 12, the band will reissue 1993's "Superjudge", 1995's "Dopes To Infinity", 1998's "Powertrip" and 2001's "God Says No." Each project will be available as 2CD and 2LP sets and present remastered audio with bonus tracks new liner notes written with direction by frontman Dave Wyndorf.

Monster Magnet will launch a European tour in support of the releases on March 7 in Bergen, Norway. "Hey hey!," says Wyndorf. "We're happy to be touring the A&M albums and hope to get into some deep cuts as well as the more obvious crowd pleasers. A lot of these songs have never been performed live and that makes it exciting for us and hopefully you too!"

The New Jersey rocker was on hand to promote "The Ties That Bind: The River Collection", a newly-issued 7-disc box set marking the 35th anniversary of the 1980 double-album. "The River" earned Springsteen his first No. 1 US album and helped expand his audience with the success of singles like "Hungry Heart."

"This was the record where women started coming to the show," Springsteen told Fallon. "Previously we played to a lot of young men, due to the homosexual undercurrents in my music. But we had a hit record, and when we have a hit record, that means it's date night - Women listen to Top 40 radio, that's what my daughter does - and so finally people came, brought their dates, girls came, it was a much nicer scene for us."

Mainman Ryan Hurtgen told Prog: "For me, the album is a concept album because it goes into a discovery of self. The idea of trying to find yourself, trying to love yourself, trying to understand what you're doing on this planet. A lot of existentialism.

The entire performance was released as Woodstock Session Vol. 4 - the first live album from the Deftones man's side-project and first release since their 2005 self-titled debut album.

Woodstock Session Vol. 4 features reworkings of their material along with new versions of tracks that were previously only available as demos. It was helped along by a PledgeMusic campaign.

Frontman Samy Elbanna says: "We can't even begin to tell you all how stoked we are to announce that we'll be hitting the road with the almighty Exodus at the end of February.

"We're so happy to finally return to the UK and hit our other favourite countries and cities. We'll be playing some tracks off Braindead for the first time ever, and of course songs off the first two records.